[Sport] Deulofeu: "The Premier and the League will surely return, but I understand the fear of my teammates"

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Watford striker Gerard Deulofeu recovers at his home in Barcelona from the serious knee injury (anterior cruciate ligament with meniscus involvement) that he suffered in late February in a crash against Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk. The Catalan player had to go through the operating room on March 7, a few days before confinement, which has allowed him to recover "and move forward, while everything stopped."

 

Speaking to Catalunya Radio, Deulofeu has acknowledged that he is one of the few people who can say that the confinement and stoppage of professional football is going well since "it has allowed me to save time on the clock in my recovery and not feel that I was losing myself so many games, "after a forecast of at least six months off. "I do not want to set deadlines or come back ahead of time, neither for myself nor for the team. I will return when I feel that I am one hundred percent because I have a long race ahead of me and I do not want to force," he explained.

 

Furthermore, Deulofeu feels more protected in Catalonia, living in his family environment, than in England, where the Covid-19 figures are worse. That is why "I understand the fear of my colleagues at Watford" in the restart. And he confesses that if he had to play now he would also suffer from a contagion that could affect his family. All in all, he thinks that "both the Premier and the League are two competitions that sooner or later will return. And we will have to find solutions, say or play all or none. Because we, with everything we have suffered to avoid relegation, we cannot allow us to lose the captain or four or five important players if the Premier is resumed and they stay at home out of fear. "

 

He believes that "seeing the current numbers of infections and deaths, perhaps in the Premier they think about it and delay the return until the end of June. Here in Spain, I suppose before." Meanwhile, his goal is to recover calmly: "After the operation, I lived with my physio for two months, and now I am at my family's house, happy, without pain and improving day by day."